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Re: U-boat Celestial Navigation WWII
From: Gary LaPook
Date: 2016 Jan 7, 11:13 -0800
From: Gary LaPook
Date: 2016 Jan 7, 11:13 -0800
Weclome aboard, you've come to the right place. Something else you might to look are the cylindercal slide rules used by the U-Boat navigators, the HR1 and the HR2 which were copies of the English Bygrave sliderule. Here are lilnks to a couple of previous posts about them:
https://navlist.net/Manufacture-Bygraves-LaPook-aug-2009-g9378
https://navlist.net/Manufacture-Bygraves-LaPook-aug-2009-g9428
https://navlist.net/Manufacture-Bygraves-LaPook-aug-2009-g9429
I developed a very easy to construct version of this device that does the same computation, instructions are available on my website at:
We also discuss in flight celestial navigation on this site so if you seqrch the archive you might find some this of interest to you.
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